How do I include plus signs in POST LWP request

denni has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been unable to figure out how to get a "+" sign into my POST request. Below is my code:

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use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url = 'http://www.somewhere.se/cgi-bin/myscript.pl';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("MyBrowser");

# Create HTTP POST request
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $url);
$request->content_type('multipart/mixed; boundary=--gc0p4Jq0M2Yt08jU53
+4c0p');

$request->content('DataOne=A&DataTwo=1+&DataThree=20');

my $response = $ua->request($request);
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Now, what is important is that I'm able to send the "+" sign as a real plus sign. However, the receiver side will strip all + signs away, assuming they're spaces.

Isn't there any way of actually sending a plus sign to the receiving script, using LWP?

Need help,
Denni

2002-02-09 Edit by Corion - Changed formatted code to CODE tags.

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Re: How do I include plus signs in POST LWP request by gav^ (Curate) on Feb 09, 2002 at 16:37 UTC
If you use HTTP::Request::Common it will handle this for you: `use HTTP::Request::Common; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->request(POST $url, [DataOne => 'A', DataTwo => '1+', DataThree => + 20]);` [download] gav^	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do I include plus signs in POST LWP request by BazB (Priest) on Feb 09, 2002 at 16:14 UTC
Try URL encoding your strings before sending them with ~~HTML::Entities~~ or similar. Update Doh! Corion has suggested URI::Escape over HTML::Entities.	[reply]
Re: How do I include plus signs in POST LWP request by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 09, 2002 at 21:38 UTC
`%2B`	[reply]